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Article #291Re: What is pornography, anyway?
From: Ed McGuire
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:03
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:03
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In article <4025@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes: This is the minimum responsibility - that is, you are responsible once you are aware of it. This is "real" common carrier responsibility. We don't know yet whether the responsibility extends further. In the case of common-carriers, it does not. And the Compuserve case had "common-carrier"ish thinking applied, so they were not held responsible. Whether a USENET site will be thought of in the same way is, as yet, unknown. Probably. But I'd be careful about prodding the beast. However, I note with optimism that the recent announced FBI action against a student posting child porn is a specific action against a specific offender for a specific offense reported by a netnews site. I would be interested in that context to learn why Cornell has pulled its a.b.p feed. -- Ed McGuire 1603 LBJ Freeway, Suite 780 Systems Administrator/ Dallas, Texas 75234 Member of Technical Staff 214/620-2100, FAX 214/484-8110 Intellection, Inc. <ed@intellection.com>
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Newsgroups: news.admin.policy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!intell!emcguire From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) Subject: Re: What is pornography, anyway? In-Reply-To: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca's message of 23 Nov 92 03:31:20 GMT Message-ID: <EMCGUIRE.92Nov23150319@fuller.intellection.com> Sender: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) Organization: Intellection, Inc. References: <1992Nov17.221810.7621@news.columbia.edu> <4005@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> <EMCGUIRE.92Nov20120155@fuller.intellection.com> <4025@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:03:19 GMT Lines: 20